Questions for Participants
- What are the experiences of transportation organizations that use CPT in winter maintenance?
- What are some of the benefits and challenges in using this technology?
- What are the common equipment or devices and material that offer reliable CPT?
- What are some of the best practices in using CPT in winter maintenance operations?
- What are some of the shortcomings of commercially available systems, products, and services in this area?
- What are some of the procedures and operational frameworks used by maintenance practitioners such as use of washing methods, deicing materials and methods and equipment modification materials and methods?
- What are some of the workflow and implementation issues?
- What investment in facilities are needed for effective corrosion mitigation?
- When using galvanized metal, what are some of the design considerations to keep in
mind? Also when mounting a galvanized part to vehicle what precautions should be
taken to prevent galvanic corrosion? This will also apply to the mounting of aluminum
truck bodies. - Welds are hard to coat and time consuming to grind and prepare correctly for coating.
- What are the advancements in adhesives for building bodies out of sheet metal or light
gauge metal, such as utility bodies, cargo bodies, and etc.? - What are best management practices from start to finish that prepare equipment for
corrosion prevention? - What type of systems can we put in place to prevent or slow down further corrosion?
- What type of materials do you select/use that will reduce corrosion?
- What are maintenance practices for corrosion prevention?
- Use of corrosion prevention best practices and how they are implemented?
- How can we build in equipment corrosion prevention?
- What are corrosion costs vs life cycle costs?
- How material use/re-use has an effect on corrosion?
- How to get repair cost savings and better protect assets?
- There is a need to look at where we spend money/time due to equipment corrosion.
What is the downtime of equipment? Is it just cosmetic? - Use of sacrificial coatings on equipment wires and other items that help to prevent
corrosion. - How to work with local pollution control districts to come to good solutions for using
wash racks and what to do with wastewater. - Recycling wash water to make brine.
- Solutions for using portable wash racks in areas they can’t wash trucks.